China Coal Information Institute grew out the former China Coal Scientific and Technical Information Institute that was set up in 1959. It is directly affiliated to the State Administration of Coal Industry(formerly the Ministry of Coal Industry),with more than 800 employees providing all round information services such as document retrieval, information research, book and journal publishing, audio-video products publishing, patent service and coal related sci-tech knowledge popularization.

leading group of China Coal Information Institute:(from left)、Zhang Wenshan, Dou Qingfeng, Huang Shengchu, Yi Lie,  He Guojia .

Professor Huang Shengchu, President

    The main functions of China Coal Information Institute are to provide information to the decision-making process by the leadership of the country's coal sector and the relevant state authorities as well as provide coal enterprises and the whole society with technical/economic information, scientific and technical documents and literatures, market investigation, information research, and consultancy,technology tranafer,books, publications and audio-video products, domestic and international trade agency service and multi-language translation and interpretation services.

Prefessor Dou Qingfeng, First Vice-President

    Presently, China Coal Information Institute's library has a total stock of more than 100,000 copies of books, periodicals and journals. It also publishes yearly 200 different kinds of books and more than 30 kinds of audio-video products. The institute has also set up its web site "http://www.coalinfo.net.cn", electronic library and more than 30 databases open to the country's coal sector. So far, China Coal Information Institute has established cooperation relations with 24 organizations in 14 different countries.
    As the national coal information management authorities,China Coal Information Institute manages the operation and control of

the  country's 20 coal industry information centers, 21 provincial and autonomous regional coal information centers and more than 150 coal information sub-centers at grass-root enterprises and institutions level.